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Photos of the day 02/25

Commuters walk through the concourse area of a newly-opened section of the World Trade Center PATH station in New York. The new station will link towns in New Jersey with the World Trade Center's transportation hub, still under construction. Mark Lennihan/AP

A man salutes during a memorial ceremony for those killed in recent violence in Kiev's Independence Square. Ukraine's parliament voted to send fugitive President Viktor Yanukovich to be tried by the International Criminal Court for 'serious crimes' committed during violent anti-government protests in which scores were killed. Yannis Behrakis/Reuters

Demonstrators take cover from a police water cannon as fireworks, thrown by other protesters, explode around them during a demonstration against the opening of a new road including a part of the Middle East Technical University campus in Ankara, Turkey. Erdogan opened the road across the Middle East Technical University campus and uprooting a large number of trees in the area. Umit Bektas/Reuters

A dancer performs at the Vina del Mar International Song Festival in Vina del Mar, Chile, Feb. 24. Believed to be one of the largest musical events in Latin America, the annual week long festival was inaugurated in 1960. Luis Hidalgo/AP

Visitors rest at the Mobile World Congress, the world's largest mobile phone trade show in Barcelona, Spain. Expected highlights include major product launches from Samsung and other phone makers, along with a keynote address by Facebook founder and chief executive Mark Zuckerberg. Manu Fernandez/AP

A Palestinian girl waits to fill her containers with water from public taps in Beit Lahiya, near the border between Israel and the northern Gaza Strip. Mohammed Salem/Reuters

South Koreans hold their North Korean relative's hands on a bus after the Separated Family Reunion Meeting at Diamond Mountain in North Korea. The first reunions of North and South Koreans in more than three years have been held in North Korea. Lee Ji-eun/Yonhap/AP

A series of images from NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) show the first moments of an X-class significant solar flare in different wavelengths of light February 24. Hot solar material can be seen hovering above the active region in the sun's atmosphere, the corona. NASA/SDO/Reuters

Wearing their marriage rings, newlyweds Alexander Emereev and Dmitry Zaytsev, both of Russia, hold their marriage book in Buenos Aires, Argentina. The two men who are from Sochi planned to apply for political asylum from Russia after their marriage ceremony at the civil registry. Victor R. Caivano/AP

Aerobatic aircraft emit colored smoke trails as they perform during an airshow at the Abu Dhabi Air Expo. Reuters

Motuba, a Western lowland 29-year-old, 432-pound gorilla eats a tomato as he makes his public debut at the Philadelphia Zoo in Philadelphia. Motuba was transferred from the Henry Doorly Zoo in Omaha, Neb. Matt Rourke/AP

A US Marine Corps Honor Guard stand guard in the falling snow prior to a wreath laying ceremony by Georgian Prime Minister Irakli Garibashvili at the Tomb of the Unknowns at Arlington National Cemetery in Arlington, Va. Jose Luis Magana/AP

Guests look at their mobile devices during the runway show for Pascal Millet's ready-to-wear fall/winter 2014-2015 fashion collection presented in Paris. Jerome Delay/AP

A man walks past a bath tub in the house of Ukraine's former prosecutor general Viktor Pshonka in the village of Gorenichy outside Kiev. Konstantin Chernichkin/Reuters

Afghan members of civil society organizations light candles during a memorial ceremony for 21 Afghan National Army (ANA) soldiers in Kabul, Afghanistan. Hundreds of heavily armed Taliban insurgents attacked army checkpoints in eastern Afghanistan in the deadliest single incident for the Afghan army in at least a year. Massoud Hossaini/AP

A dog stands in a street as workers from the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (SPCA), gather other dogs for sterilization in the township of Khayelitsha, South Africa. The City of Cape Town has approved a grant of around US$50,000 for a dog and cat mass sterilization project in Khayelitsha as World Spay Day is observed across the world. Schalk van Zuydam/AP

Brooklyn Nets center Jason Collins shoots during practice on the campus of UCLA in Los Angeles. Collins became the first openly gay active athlete in North America's four major professional sports, signing a 10-day contract with the Brooklyn Nets. Reed Saxon/AP

Actress Katie McArdle and actor Nick Whitley act out a scene on a ward at Dunham Massey Hall in Cheshire which has been recreated as the Stamford Military Hospital, its wartime role, to commemorate the centenary of the First World War, Manchester, England. Jon Super/AP

A laborer holds onto a bucket with his teeth as he descends from a single room tenement without proper access at a slum in New Delhi, India. Migrant laborers often share the cheapest accommodation available to to make working in a city more viable. Saurabh Das/AP

People visit the Olympic Park amid thick haze in Beijing. A Chinese man in the smoggy northern city of Shijiazhuang, capital of Hebei province, has become the first person in the country to sue the government for failing to curb air pollution, a state-run newspaper reported. Kim Kyung-Hoon/Reuters